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It’s Top 10 Friday! Every other Friday Artprice posts a theme-based auction ranking. This week we pick out the Top 10 performing Contemporary Chinese artists, ten years after the extraordinary peaks reached by some of the country’s most fashionable artists. Last year (end-June 2017 to end-June 2018) two Chinese Contemporary artists, Chen Yifei and Zhou […]

$23.5 million for the canvas Apocalypse Now in November 2013 and $21 million for If You in May 2014, Christopher WOOL is today one of the essential signatures in Contemporary art sales, on the same level as Jeff KOONS and Gerhard RICHTER.

In the first week of April, Sotheby’s, global no. 2 and Poly, global no. 3 (established in Hong Kong since 2012) held a series of major sales devoted to Modern and Contemporary Asian art. The sales featured lots of works by charismatic artists whose prices are still on an ascending path. Below, some of the highlights of the two days of sales entirely dedicated to Asian art.

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CHEN Yifei (1946-2005) (China) is an artist born in 1946
The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a painting sold in 1991, at Christie's, and the most recent auction result is a painting sold in 2019. Artprice.com's price levels for this artist are based on 580 auction results.
Especially: painting, print-multiple, sculpture-volume, drawing-watercolor.
One art work by artist CHEN Yifei (1946-2005) will soon be available in auction rooms.